“Perfectly chosen stories” – Murder Takes a Holiday ed. Cecily Gayford
“Will get you thinking” – Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
“A joy to read” – Male Tears by Benjamin Myers
“Complete and satisfying” – The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
“Everything came to a dead halt” – Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by Lazlo Krasznahorkai
“Shrouded in ambiguity” – Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
“Unremittingly compelling throughout” – Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
“The most successful of the quartet” – Summer by Ali Smith
“Mildly entertaining” – The Ghost of Frédéric Chopin, by Eric Faye (trans. Sam Taylor)
“A compelling mystery” – Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling
“Fearless in pursuit” – Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick
“A golden age of witches” – Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
“An inventive hodge-podge of the real and the imagined” – Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles by Fermin Solis
“Never takes its foot off the pedal” – Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
“Much more my cup of tea” – The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
“BELIEVE THE HYPE” – The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel #booker2020
“Brilliant and important” – I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
“A valiant effort” – The Dancing Plague by Gareth Brookes
“A pleasure to read” – The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
“Dark beer” – First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
“Engaging throughout” – The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghoe
“It has some good points” – Come Again by Robert Webb
“Wild-as-you-like” – The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison
“A somewhat stranger pilgrimage” – Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
“A superb collection” – Paradise Block by Alice Ash
“Feels positively sumptuous” – The Bookseller of Florence by Dr. Ross King
“Needs trigger warnings” – Coming Undone by Terri White
“Classic Hornby” – Just Like You by Nick Hornby
